Applied OPTICS
 

Portland State University

2026, Abril 15 - Junio 12                                                                                                                                                Dr. Andres La Rosa
T & Th  2 p.m - 4 pm                                                                                                                                                            andres@pdx.edu       
Lectures will be  held  at :       
ZOOM Meeting ID:  279 107 2579 

                                                                                                                                           

Text

No specific textbook is required. Students should be able to follow this course with any standard Optics textbook available from the PSU Library. 

I have also placed some reference books at the PSU Library Reserve Room.  

The lecture notes for this course are also available online  (this webpage); most of the topics covered in the lecture notes come from the following references:       

•  Hecht, "Optics,"  Addison Wesley.                                                    Available at the PSU Library Reserve Room    (Circulation Desk), 24 Hour loan 

• Richard Feynman, “The Feynman Lectures on Physics”      Available online  https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/  )           

•  Pedrotti, "Introduction to Optics," Prentice Hall.                   Available   at the PSU Library Reserve Room (Circulation Desk) 

•  Ajoy Ghatak, "Optics", Mc Graw Hill.                                              Available at the PSU Library Reserve Room     (Circulation Desk) 24 Hour loan

•   Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh, "Photonics," 6th Ed., Oxford University Press. 

• G. H. B. Thompson, Physics of Semiconductor Laser Devices (for laser diode theory )

•   S. O. Kasap, "Optoelectronics and Photonics," Prentice Hall. 

•   Donald C. O'Shea, W. Russell Callen, and William T. Rhodes, "Introduction to lasers and     their applications." Addison Wesley 

•   Other helpful references: MIT Open courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-department/) 

Evaluation

Set of homework                               80%
Presentation of own research   20%   (Power Point presentaions to be held during the last two weeks of the term)

Attendance

Mandatory

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